A Herpes Heartthrob Ought To Be An Immediate Has-Been I’m bitter. I’m very bitter. Why, you ask? Because someone who lives in a community that I cherish and have no intention of leaving just very publicly confessed to me that…
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Can A Turncoat Be Trusted? I think it truly depends. In the sad state of “affairs” today (no pun intended), there are some relationships in which the cheating that occurs is both pre-understood and pre-accepted. This is either because both…
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The Singles of the World Are Miserable and Mourning It’s really bad to make steeping generalizations in life because when you do, the next day you run into someone who defies your generalization-by a landslide. That being said, I think…
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I am by no means a BITTER single girl. But I am a confused single girl. It seems as though all of the men I am interested in make it abundantly and impolitely clear that they have no interest in…
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TRUE Trust Is Tried And True Someone has let us down. Someone has betrayed us. And so we doubt. And on the most drastic of levels, we tell ourselves that we will never believe in that person or any other…
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The majority of people will tell you that there is no healthy way to get someone to fall in love with you and that doing such a thing will forever label you as pushy or insane. And that might be…
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Men: Go From Dismal Disaster to Don Juan in No Time Flat Despite popular belief, being a romantic man does not take being the best looking man or smartest man in the world. Nor does it really take too much…
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In my opinion, there are three types of cheating. There is academic cheating. There is professional cheating. And there is emotional cheating. Academic cheating involves everything from a slight yet deliberate glance at a neighboring classmate’s exam to obtain an…
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Is Saying, “I Love You” Losing Its Appeal? I am a heterosexual female. And I have always been very comfortable around all people regardless of gender or sexual orientation. In the past, it was quite customary for me to visibly…
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July 17, 2015 Friends and Peers
We all have friends. And we choose them for a variety of reasons. Maybe we got a good feeling about them when we first looked at them or talked to them. Maybe they share an interest with us or are…
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OK. I’m just going to level with all the “good guys” out there looking for a “good girl.” If I do say so myself, I am a very “good girl.” Sure, I have done many things in my life that…
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July 11, 2015 Friends and Peers
If you are a vocalist who sings off key, an actor who mumbles through your monologue or a painter who makes puddles with your paintbrush, someone at some point is bound to tell you that you have no talent. As…
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June 7, 2015 Friends and Peers
Freeloader or Friend?: When a Penny Earned Might NOT Be a Penny Saved Does this question sound familiar? "Can I borrow a dollar?" chimes a desperate voice. This is the voice of more than one friend in your life who…
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I have had several different burning questions at various intervals, but here is a most current list: 1. Why do I only have half of a phone number that I would really like to use immediately? The person is probably…
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Any generation gap relationship can go one of two ways. It can be terrific or it can be torture. The outcome will depend solely on each other’s willingness to relate to the other person, to understand and to accept the…
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March 31, 2015 Marriage and Divorce
Should A Wife With A Wandering Eye or A Husband With His Hands In More Than His Pockets Be Banished? Maybe not. If you know for AN ABSOLUTE FACT that your spouse is spreading his or her wings to fly…
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February 25, 2015 Friends and Peers
Being a good friend is a pretty complicated thing because it requires a lot. It is very similar to having good manners-a situation where there are many rules to follow. There are a lot of “basics” that are self-evident to…
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Healthy Hair Has its Headaches I am not a hairdresser or a hairstylist and yet people are always telling me how lovely my thick tresses look. But healthy hair has its price in meticulous and time consuming headaches. Here are…
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November 27, 2014 Friends and Peers
Are Your Friendships Fading Away Instead of Forming a Firmer Foundation? May-be. And whether we like it or not, this happens to all of us all the time as we create our individual destinies while leading our collective lives. Some…
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Liar, Liar: There Are Lessons To Be Learned In the Lies of Men You’re foraging through the dresser drawer and come across another woman’s phone number. He tells you that it is nothing and that you are being paranoid. Your…
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July 10, 2014 Friends and Peers
Depending on how long you have known your friend and how close you thought that you and your friend were, the idea of them starting a new love affair might be extremely upsetting to you. And, at the same time,…
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December 19, 2013 Friends and Peers
I have always been fairly eccentric. In the mid to late eighties and early nineties as a junior high, high school and college student, the Internet held a wide appeal for me because it was a cheap, universal, and unusual…
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